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Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever? Cannot students be boarded here and get a liberal education under the skies of Concord? Can we not hire some Abelard to lecture to us?
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Practice and Virtue
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the pitfalls of education (‘any education that neglects the experience of delight will be a dry and tasteless diet with no nourishment in it’).
Philip Pullman • Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling
What Augustine offers us is a slant of detachment—a recognition of the power of sexual desire with a resistance to letting it define anyone.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
By the end of his lecture, I did care a bit more about Edmund Spenser and his work and the revival of medieval motifs and how a poet ought to be a moral teacher. That’s how Mr. Lewis is; he captures the mind as quick as a heartbeat.
Patti Callahan • Once Upon a Wardrobe
Here’s what I can’t say to you in front of your face: I’m worried about the future of your maximum taste. People in my and earlier generations, at least those lucky enough to get a college education, got some exposure to the classics, which lit a fire that gets rekindled every time we sit down to read something really excellent. I worry that it’s
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